Comments on: Africa (and Aid): Not Dead Yet http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/africa-and-aid-not-dead-yet/ European Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ладушки.Net » Blog Archive » Posts about Putin as of 05/03/2010 http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/africa-and-aid-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-29625 Ладушки.Net » Blog Archive » Posts about Putin as of 05/03/2010 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:09 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=5853#comment-29625 [...] But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin … : Vladimir Putin to shut down gambling in Russia Africa (and Aid): Not Dead Yet - fistfulofeuros.net 06/29/2009 Dambisa Moyo   is one of Time’s 100 most influential people [...] [...] But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin … : Vladimir Putin to shut down gambling in Russia Africa (and Aid): Not Dead Yet – fistfulofeuros.net 06/29/2009 Dambisa Moyo   is one of Time’s 100 most influential people [...]

]]> By: adam http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/africa-and-aid-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-25755 adam Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:31:36 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=5853#comment-25755 "Regardless, these measures of broader success suggest that it is premature to write off the region as a failure –and perhaps even to declare the death of aid." On the contrary. Given that most well designed studies of IQ of Sub-saharan Africans have shown it to be around 80 (for example the recent paper by Wichert, doi:10.1016/j.intell.2009.05.002), it is most likely that exogenously influenced (i.e. through aid) metrics like childhood mortailty will improve, will endogenuous metrics, like GDP, patents, productivity, will continue stasis or even decline. Thus, expect aid to increase instead of decrease. “Regardless, these measures of broader success suggest that it is premature to write off the region as a failure –and perhaps even to declare the death of aid.”
On the contrary. Given that most well designed studies of IQ of Sub-saharan Africans have shown it to be around 80 (for example the recent paper by Wichert, doi:10.1016/j.intell.2009.05.002), it is most likely that exogenously influenced (i.e. through aid) metrics like childhood mortailty will improve, will endogenuous metrics, like GDP, patents, productivity, will continue stasis or even decline. Thus, expect aid to increase instead of decrease.

]]> By: Ombrageux http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/africa-and-aid-not-dead-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-25754 Ombrageux Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:17:53 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=5853#comment-25754 Dambisa Moyo's brief moment in the spotlight always struck me as a little strange. That a lovely African woman with a semi-British accent and a smooth weave should do all the talk shows and newspapers in the U.S. and Britain to denounce aid to her own continent seemed a little too convenient. Like the way neocons seize on a more-or-less telegenic but dubious dissident from this or that country to ratchet up whatever militarist project they happen to have. I don't doubt there are problems with the aid industry. I don't know enough to really have an intelligent assessment of the subject. There is no doubt Africa has been caricatured. It is no doubt still the worst off continent economically. But there is growth in many countries, and politically, African states are much more likely to have a degree of democracy and civil society than those in - say - the systematically authoritarian regions of the Middle East, Central Asia and continental East Asia. It isn't all Congolese warlords and Somalian pirates. Dambisa Moyo’s brief moment in the spotlight always struck me as a little strange. That a lovely African woman with a semi-British accent and a smooth weave should do all the talk shows and newspapers in the U.S. and Britain to denounce aid to her own continent seemed a little too convenient. Like the way neocons seize on a more-or-less telegenic but dubious dissident from this or that country to ratchet up whatever militarist project they happen to have.

I don’t doubt there are problems with the aid industry. I don’t know enough to really have an intelligent assessment of the subject. There is no doubt Africa has been caricatured. It is no doubt still the worst off continent economically. But there is growth in many countries, and politically, African states are much more likely to have a degree of democracy and civil society than those in – say – the systematically authoritarian regions of the Middle East, Central Asia and continental East Asia.

It isn’t all Congolese warlords and Somalian pirates.

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